What is the recommended approach for creating a film or TV script? Should the script be written first or should the story be developed first? Why?
07.06.2025 10:33
Story. Because…
Boston Public
b)- Be someone who has no structural value to that big chart with all the episodes. Whoever dies can’t be someone who is carrying this program. A dip in quality is unacceptable. You could kill Piper as long as it still was a good show. So whoever they killed had to be someone they didn’t rely on for all their quality. This took a conscious decision when they first began. Whoever they create needs to be someone people want to gravitate towards so they keep watching…but it can’t be someone the whole series relies on. So instead, they make Poussey like a flower in a field of weeds and pesticides. When it’s required to have optimism and life, Poussey is there. When it’s required to make the point that nothing can breathe or grow if Trump gets a second term, Poussey CAN’T be there.
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c)- You gotta have some kind of mobile like in a classroom because a 3-D situation would help given the time jump and the flashbacks. Those are for the viewer and fun to imagine doing but stressful for the writer. It becomes closer and closer to a math project. There IS an answer. One that’s a scientific fact. Because in addition to filling in an established timeline, you’re using grand big theories and such, ones that make the show unique, like desperation…
b)- I can see how you’d do it. You’d have to get alot of space. You gotta map out the neighborhood with just tiny boxes on a line and then a brief label. Then attach ideas and write them above each house. But you also need an OVERARCHING murder plot WHICH…has the husband of the narrator involved fifty episodes in still. He can go to prison, but he can never die. He never be stopped until every last bit of goodness is extracted from him including Sammi from Shameless playing his prison penpal.
d)- Desperate Housewives means that there NEEDS to be some kind of a big crime that overarches not only a season but the whole series. Because you don’t want someone making a show that kicks your show’s ass because they know to have this. There needs to be someone in your story whose definition of “desperation” results in consequences. Orange is The New Black after three seasons with the great Sian Heder had gotten too fan-friendly, Jenji Kohan apparently thought, to make a strong point. They needed consequences. Big Bang Theory NEEDS to have a Sheldon. They had to show what the pits of Hades are like when you’re going into the subject of Carnegie Mellon eggheads who HATE outer stimuli. Bree Van De Kamp uses housework to emotionally detach. We see what happens to one of these housewives when they don’t do this, and go with they emotions, and try to vis-a-vis kidnap someone (there’s no baby snatchers but there are definitely baby KEEPERS. That’s desperation that has a shot to resonate with mothers and grandmothers in the audience. A nut snatching a baby from a hospital would probably not).
There is a sequence in Boston Public where the show tries to kick out all the straight male viewers who are watching essentially with our erections. It happens with a two minute segment in Season 3, Episode 5, so this is the 49th episode. When Michelle Moynahan is sitting in the Boston bar the teachers like to go to…English teacher Joey McIntyre and Chemistry teacher Jon Abrahams walk in. With erections. They ask if they can sit down. She says yes, as colleagues not horn-dogs. Now just when you think this is lame…IT THEN CUTS TO…Jeri Ryan’s apartment. She’s playing Ronnie Cook, the hot lawyer who becomes a teacher. She’s dating a PTSD-ridden Harry Senate…they’re having sex. She’s like “look at me baby, look at me baby” and it’s Jeri Ryan doing it so it’s hot…but then…she’s almost raped. He essentially pins her down. We don’t see how because the sheets are over them. But this is then the end of Harry Senate effectively. She reports him to Principal Harper. They sit and he asks her, while she’s in contemplative tears, if he’s unfit to teach. We will find out the answer is yes. So that’s MY favorite teacher, gone by the end. Forever. He drives away as the music cue is a cool sad violin played by a kid Guber kept after school to practice. At the duh-duh-duh…..duhhhh-duhhhhhhh, that break with all the dots is when Harry drives away from Winslow, and the screen goes to black, and the executive producer credit came on. It was on Dailymotion the website and then they took it off. It sucks.
1- Ever since I finished this show a few weeks ago, I’ve wanted to make one like it.
c)- This also means that they have to show Poussey be the most sensitive. We have to imagine that there is no place for her to breathe in the second half of the series. So we show that she can’t handle basic stories that Suzanne writes, basic words. She can’t make a new friend once she has Taystee. It is too much to her to maneuver even a first-jail-friend friend break-up. Boo looks forward to the end point of every female relationship she has, whether it be friends or fucks. For Poussey, until Brook WAY down the line, in Season 4, a sea of women she could have actual friends-with-benefits situations with, we never meet a ONE. Nicky we see at least five. There’s a hot Egyptian one in Season 7, Brook when she had all her hair and looked fresh as a daisy in Season 2, she gets with Stella when they go to max even! And there’s the game in Season 2 she plays with Boo and cheats in. So Boo essentially OWNS Season 5, and Nicky OWNS Season 6 and 7. Poussey is long gone.
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DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
1- First, let’s take Poussey’s murder on Orange is the New Black. Someone was going to be sacrificed. If they wanted the issues to be more urgent, they had to start giving us fables with morals. Moral of the story is — this is what private prisons do, or…pay the fuck attention, Bayley, this is not an ice cream shop or…Suzanne should be in a real mental hospital and her very character is a direct stab at Ronald Reagen and an administration that has housed YOUR SMITH-COLLEGE-GRADUATE DAUGHTER with a WOMAN WHO HAS VIOLENT BEATDOWNS AS A TICK. So we need to flesh out this story first because Season 4, and the specific episode of Poussey’s murder, would be episode 51. Because it’s the 12th episode of 13-episode season. Alright…51 episodes in comes essentially the entire point that the writers even want to make AND the one they sacrifice has to—